Cattle grazing outside Sokoto, Nigeria, where large-scale farming is in conflict with local communities. CreditCreditLuis Tato/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Christopher Flavelle covers climate adaptation for The New York Times, focusing on how people,...
THE FIRST HAND of the Green New Deal has been dealt. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Thursday unveiled a five-page, non-binding resolution that frames a 10-year “national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization” to...
CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.Elizabeth KolbertCarbon Engineering, a company owned in part by Bill Gates, has its headquarters on a spit of land that juts into Howe Sound, an hour north of Vancouver. Until recently, the...
Ecological Grief effects everyone and is a very real occupational hazard to people who work in the sustainability field(please read the linked article below on Hope and Mourning). The more you know, the deeper the hole of dispare and hopelessness and the...
Not the end of the planet, but maybe the end of its human inhabitants By JEFF GOODELL A 747 Global Airtanker makes a drop in front of advancing flames from a wildfire Thursday, August 2nd, 2018, in Lakeport, California.Kent Porter /The Press Democrat/AP “Our...
By Bill McKibben May 30, 2018 From Port Douglas, in Queensland, Australia, it’s about two hours by motorboat to the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef. On a trip last month, the sea was choppy and no one talked much, just dozed in the early morning sun. We...
ROBINSON MEYER A new study warns it has become a “highly altered, degraded system.”Once upon a time, there was a city so dazzling and kaleidoscopic, so braided and water-rimmed, that it was often compared to a single living body. It clustered around a glimmering...
January 24, 20184:37 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF A short drive north of Fairbanks, Alaska, there’s a red shed stuck right up against a hillside. The shed looks unremarkable, except for the door. It looks like a door to a walk-in freezer,...
Ocean Fish Pollution Water Sunset CBS/AP The apocalypse has a new date: 2048.That’s when the world’s oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to overfishing,...
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